Turned out Papua New Guinea was a bit boring, so I fell asleep in a large buff envelope. This turned out to be an error as it appears that during my sleep someone must have licked and sealed the envelope and popped it in the post. Luckily for me the […]

Pity poor Shane Black. He goes away and the movies change. He comes back and makes a solid piece of Shane Black entertainment: a buddy movie (sort of) and it feels wildly out of date. Very entertaining mind you. Just a bit like Overboard in the 80&#8[…]

Sorry that ILX is offline today – this is pretty unavoidable as someone is intent on just pissing about with any thread they fancy. Something has happened on the Noise board and i don’t know what or why, but i sure know the end result. I&[…]

I notice that the BBC has tagged us as one of the sites which writes about pop music in simple language rather than using “bloglish”, which is a tool whereby The Kids confuse The Man and stop him buying their music with his so-called &#82[…]

Imagine. In trying to find a picture of the new Strongbow brand Sirrus I came across this website onlyfinebeer.co.uk which, and I quote:

Onlyfinebeer encourages its users to express their fondness for beer, by allowing them to write nice words about[…]

Happy Birthday Harriet[…]

Being cold might make you get cold, SCIENTISTS REVEAL. My irritation with THIS SORT OF THING is summed up in the final sentence – “Mothers can now be confident in their advice to children to wrap up well in winter” b/c of course the[…]

The average number of CD’s owned in the UK is 126. The average number of those CD’s which have had to be replaced due to theft, loss or accidental melting because they fell down the back of the radiator is 36.
What a wasteful society we l[…]

apparently the above — first ep broadcast on c4 on saturday — is based on a SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIB’n which fellow citizens of the Freaky Trigan Empire enjoyed well i watched it w.my dad — though he wisely slept through the entir[…]

“Hitchens then turned the subject back to Chalabi, his good friend. I asked him if he thought Chalabi had been passing American intelligence to the Iranians. “No,” he insisted. “It’s possible that with his training, you[…]